The Blue Jays’ Anthony Santander missed most of the season with a shoulder injury
DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander will miss most of the upcoming season with a shoulder injury, manager John Schneider announced Tuesday at spring training.
Schneider said Santander will undergo labrum surgery on his left shoulder on Wednesday and is expected to be out for five to six months.
It’s another disappointing turnaround for Santander, who has 44 homers and 102 RBI with Baltimore in 2024. He signed a five-year, $92.5 million contract as a free agent to join the Blue Jays last offseason, but struggled and played in just 54 games during his injury-plagued Toronto debut.
“Kind of had a setback when he started improving his hitting in early January and came to the complex, got checked out, and we did everything we could to avoid this,” Schneider said.
There was more bad news for the Blue Jays on Tuesday: Right-hander Shane Bieber, the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner, had arm fatigue and was not ready for opening day.
Schneider said the team is being extra cautious with Bieber and expects him to be a key contributor this season.
Bieber was rehabbing from Tommy John surgery when he was acquired from Cleveland at the July 31 trade deadline last year. He made his season debut on August 22 and pitched 40 1/3 innings for Toronto during the regular season, going 4-2 with a 3.57 ERA in seven starts. But he pitched 18 2/3 innings in the postseason with a 3.86 ERA and helped the Blue Jays to one win in the World Series championship.
“In talking to him and talking to our medical team, we decided that the best possible outcome was this,” Schneider said. “Slow down play a little bit after going through what he went through in the postseason and the World Series.”
Blue Jays right-hander Bowden Francis will miss the entire season after undergoing UCL reconstruction surgery on Wednesday.
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